NEARD(8)

💖 NEARD 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is neard from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual and she is that girl. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

neard — Near Field Communication daemon 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

neard [--version] | [--help]

neard [--debug=<file1>:<file2>:...] [--plugin=<plugin1>,<plugin2>,...]
[--noplugin=<plugin1>,<plugin2>,...] [--nodaemon]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so neard is an NFC (Near Field Communication) daemon — like, she's the one managing NFC operations on devices running the Linux operating system. 👑 She relies on the Linux kernel NFC socket and generic netlink families, and she's a fully modular system, which means you can extend her through plug-ins. it's giving lego but make it NFC. 💅

She supports all 4 NFC tag types for reading and writing, plus NFC LLCP (that's peer to peer mode, iykyk) in both target and initiator modes. ✨ And the Simple NDEF Exchange Protocol (SNEP), the NDEF Push Protocol (NPP), and handover (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) protocols? All implemented as separate plugins on top of LLCP sockets. no cap. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

the following options are supported, bestie, and yes we're going through every single one:

• --version — prints the neard software version and dips. bye! 👋
• --help — prints neard's available options and exits. your little map 🗺️
• --debug=<file1>:<file2>:... — sets how much info neard sends to the log destination (usually syslog's "daemon" facility). If the file options are omitted, then debugging information from all the source files gets printed. If file options are present, then only debug prints from that source file are printed. example time:

--debug=src/service.c:plugins/wifi.c

• --plugin=<plugin1>,<plugin2>,... — load these plugins only. The option can be a pattern containing "*" and "?" characters. picky queen 💅
• --noplugin=<plugin1>,<plugin2>,... — never load these plugins. The option can be a pattern containing "*" and "?" characters. blocklist era 🙈
• --nodaemon — do not daemonize. This is useful for debugging, and directs log output to the controlling terminal in addition to syslog. lowkey the most helpful one for figuring out what's going on 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• neard.conf(5) — go read her too, she's important 💜

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, go touch some NFC tags 💖✨

this was NEARD(8), sourced from the System Manager's Manual, dated 7 March 2013 — iconic, historic, still slaying. 🎀🌸🦋